Social Media and Learning of English Language: A Study on the Undergraduate Students of Assam, India

Abstract

Social media plays an important role among the masses and students all over the world. Here, in this study, the main aim is to explore the role of social media among the undergraduate college-goers of Assam in learning English. The study covers the available social media platforms, such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Messenger, and IMO. For this purpose, the researchers imply a qualitative approach along with a survey method, which includes a questionnaire on the web. It has four parts, namely access to ICT tools, competency to use social media, elements influencing the use of social media, and the perceptions of the English language when they use social media. It is distributed to the undergraduate students in the form of Google Forms through WhatsApp. The findings indicated that the students learn new things and gather new knowledge using social media. According to the result, social media plays an important role, and it helps them improve all their skills in the English language. Hence, the learners may be encouraged to engage themselves to use social media in English to master it and improve their proficiency.